BILL NUMBER: AB 439	CHAPTERED  09/19/00

	CHAPTER   482
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 16, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 25, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 10, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 5, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 19, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 8, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 28, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pescetti
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Honda)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist, Cox, Cunneen, Dutra,
Lempert, Steinberg, and Thomson)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Johannessen, Johnston, McPherson, Ortiz, and
Sher)

                        FEBRUARY 16, 1999

   An act to amend Section 31470.2 of, and to add Sections 20441.5
and 31639.76 to, the Government Code, relating to county employees'
retirement.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 439, Pescetti.  County employees' retirement:  park rangers.
   The Public Employees' Retirement Law and the County Employees
Retirement Law of 1937 provide generally higher benefit formulas and
higher contribution rates for safety members than those provided for
general members.
   Under the Public Employees' Retirement Law, "county peace
officers," as defined, among others, are safety members.
   This bill would define "county peace officers" to include parks
and recreation department employees in the Park Ranger class series
in Santa Clara County who perform  specified duties.
   Under the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, sheriffs,
deputies sheriff, and other specified individuals whose principal
duties consist of active law enforcement are eligible for safety
member status.  Under that law, general members who become safety
members may elect to receive service credit for prior service upon
payment of specified additional contributions.
   This bill would provide that peace officers in the Park Ranger
class series, employed, as specified, by the County of Sacramento,
may, at the election of the board of supervisors, be eligible for
safety member status and receive credit as a safety member for prior
service pursuant to the terms of a memorandum of understanding
between the employer and employee representative.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 20441.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   20441.5.  "County peace officer" shall also include persons
employed by the county parks  and recreation department in the Park
Ranger class series whose primary responsibility is maintaining the
peace and whose duties include law enforcement, emergency medical
care first response, or fire suppression and  prevention.
   This section shall not apply to the employees of any contracting
agency nor to any agency unless and until the contracting agency
elects to be subject to the provisions of this section by amendment
to its contract with the board, made as provided in Section 20474 or
by express provision in its contract with the board.
   This section shall only be applicable in Santa Clara County.
  SEC. 2.  Section 31470.2 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   31470.2.  (a) All sheriffs, undersheriffs, chief deputies sheriff,
jailers, turnkeys, deputies sheriff, bailiffs, constables, deputies
constable, motorcycle officers, aircraft pilots, heads and assistant
heads of all divisions of the office of the sheriff, detectives and
investigators in the office of the district attorney, marshals, court
service officers only in a county of the third class, as defined in
Sections 28020 and 28024, and all regularly appointed deputy marshals
are eligible.
   (b) In a county of the eighth class, as defined in Sections 28020
and 28029, both as amended by Chapter 1204 of the Statutes of 1971,
all peace officers in the Park Ranger class series in the Department
of Regional Parks, Recreation, and Open Space are eligible.  This
subdivision shall not be operative until such time as the county
board of supervisors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority vote,
make this subdivision applicable in the county.
  SEC. 3.  Section 31639.76 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   31639.76.  Notwithstanding Section 31639.7, a safety member
described in subdivision (b) of Section 31470.2 may receive credit as
a safety member for all or any part of the time during which he or
she was not within the field of membership as a safety member to the
extent and subject to the terms and conditions provided in a
memorandum of understanding between the employer and the designated
employee representative.
   This section shall apply only to a county of the eighth class, as
defined in Sections 28020 and 28029, both as amended by Chapter 1204
of the Statutes of 1971, if the board of supervisors in that county
has elected to make subdivision (b) of Section 31470.2 applicable in
the county.
